Idea of "Software as a Service" is our key value.
Such service can reduce the total costs for the clients. And help the clients to experience the core system, and bulid a long-term relationship with us.

We provide open source focus solutions to the end customers. These solutions need a depth communication with customers. We need to understand the clients' advantage and shortage, then we can help them to plan the project.

Communicate the project at the beginning can bring the project to success.Because we can reduce the misunderstanding.This method we called "Customer Engagement" , in this way of Agile Development we can safe and quick to deliver the project .

We provide professional service to help the Small-Middle Business or Small-Middle Enterprise grow. With our enough experience in the industry, most clients can benefits a lot and avoid the wrong way to expand their Information System.

The part of the system where the HR Manager or other appointed personnel perform all system administration tasks. This include defining company structure, pay grades and other information that serves as the backbone for the rest of the system. Security issues are taken care of through this module as well by defining user rights.

This core module maintains all relevant employee related information, including different types of personal information, detailed qualifications and work experience, job related information etc. Picture of employee is included as well. Information captured in this module is utilized by all other modules, thus eliminating data redundancy.

Employee self service is a powerful tool providing employees of the company with the ability to view relevant information such as personal information, updating personal information with web - enabled PC without having to hassle the HR staff.

The functionality of this module spans through the entire system, making information available anywhere, anytime. Of course all information is subject to company defined security policy, where everyone can only view the information he/she is authorized to. Time and cost saving effects from this solution are tremendous.

Reports Module

This feature produces customized reports according to your needs. Any number of reports can be defined by selecting from a range of search criteria and report fields. Report definitions can be saved to avoid repeating this task. Once the report definition is saved, the report can be generated by providing the required criteria data

Leave Module

A comprehensive leave management module, with extensive possibilities of defining leave types and more. It caters for all application and approval processes and is able to display information on leave entitlement, balance, history etc. Thanks to the web-enabled and self-service concepts, it significantly streamlines all leave related procedures, eliminates paperwork and saves costs.

The module automates time tracking related processes. The offered functionality enhances the organization's performance by eliminating paperwork and manual processes associated with time and attendance needs. The sophisticated module helps to efficiently organize labor data, improve the workforce management and minimize errors in enforcement of company's attendance policies.

Features:

Define organization’s customers and projects

Create timesheets

Administration and management of your own and your subordinates’ timesheets

Benefit Module

This module illustrates on the company’s Health Saving Plan policies. This allows the administrator of the system to define the suitable health savings plan policy for the organization, ESS users to make requests on health savings, administrator to approve or reject the requests and the systematic monitoring of the user accounts on health savings.

Features:

Define HSP

Employee HSP Summary

HSP Payments Due

HSP Expenditure

HSP Request

Recruitment Module

The recruitment module simply defines the whole recruitment process which will be carried out in an organization. The bulky, methodical manual recruitment procedures have been changed into a flexible, user friendly, efficient, comprehensive recruitment engine which can be easily embedded into your companies’ website.

SugarCRM is rethinking how technology can help companies manage customer relationships. Sugar, the market leading commercial open source CRM application, delivers a feature-rich set of business processes that enhance marketing effectiveness, drive sales performance, improve customer satisfaction and provide executive insight into business performance. Supported by deep collaboration and administration capabilities that adapt to how your company operates, Sugar is delighting customers of all sizes across a broad range of industries.

Drupal (pronunciation: /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to CMSs. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS-feeds, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can be used as a brochureware website, a single- or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community website providing for user-generated content.

Over 7000 (as of November 2010) free community-contributed addons, known as contrib modules, are available to alter and extend Drupal's core capabilities and add new features or customize Drupal's behavior and appearance. Because of this plug-in extensibility and modular design, Drupal is sometimes described as a content management framework. Drupal is also described as a web application framework, as it meets the generally accepted feature requirements for such frameworks.

Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP 4.4.0+ (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx) and a database (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) to store content and settings. Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 or higher.

History

Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. Drupal is an English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a water droplet”). The name was taken from the now-defunct Drop.org website, whose code slowly evolved into Drupal. Buytaert wanted to call the site “dorp” (Dutch for “village”) for its community aspects, but mistyped it when checking the domain name and thought the error sounded better.

A community now helps develop Drupal, and Drupal's popularity is growing rapidly. From May 2007 to April 2008, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 1.4 million times, an increase of approximately 125% from the previous year.

As of July 2010, hundreds of well-known organizations use Drupal, including companies, governments, non-profits, schools, and individuals. An estimated 7.2 million sites used Drupal as of July 2010. Drupal also won several Packt Open Source CMS Awards and three times (in a row) won the Webware 100.

Drupal 6.19, released in August 2010, is the latest release.

There is no date announced yet for the final release of Drupal 7. Test releases include:

On March 5, 2009, Buytaert announced a code freeze for Drupal 7 for September 1, 2009.

On October 7, 2010, beta 1 was released.

On October 23, 2010, beta 2 was released.

On November 14, 2010, beta 3 was released.

On December 1, 2010, release candidate 1 was released.

Drupal core

Drupal core is the stock element of Drupal. In its default configuration, a Drupal website's content can be contributed by either registered or anonymous users (at the discretion of the administrator) and is made accessible to web visitors by a variety of selectable criteria. Drupal core also includes a hierarchical taxonomy system, which allows content to be categorized or tagged with key words for easier access.

Drupal maintains a detailed changelog of core feature updates by version

Core modules

Drupal core includes optional modules which can be enabled by the administrator to extend the functionality of the core website. The core Drupal distribution provides a number of features, including:

Access statistics and logging

Advanced search

Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls

Caching and feature throttling for improved performance

Descriptive URLs

Multiple-level menu system

Multiple-site support

Multiple-user content creation and editing

OpenID support

RSS Feed and Feed Aggregator

Security/new release update notification

User profiles

Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email)

Workflow tools (Triggers and Actions)

Core themes

Drupal core includes core themes, which customize the "look and feel" of Drupal sites.

By February 2008, Drupal had been made available in 44 languages and English (the default). Support is included for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.

Auto-update notification

Drupal can automatically notify the administrator when a new version of any module, theme, or the Drupal core itself becomes available. This feature can help keep a Drupal installation up-to-date with the latest features and security fixes.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available.

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB? has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB? 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

MindTouch Deki is a web-based collaboration, wiki software and mashup platform. It is divided into a front-end (written in PHP) and an API, written in C#. The Deki front-end and API are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License while the Dream services layer is released under the Apache License, making it free and open source software. MindTouch packages some proprietary connectors on top of the open source edition to provide a commercial version of Deki, currently branded 'MindTouch 2009', which is commercially supported.

As of 5 February 2009, Deki was the 2nd-ranked project on the open source hosting site SourceForge, where it was Project of the Month in May 2008.

History

MindTouch originally developed Deki as a fork of MediaWiki, replacing wikitext with XHTML, adding a WYSIWYG editor, adding page and file search using Lucene, adding page hierarchies, and wrapping it all in a new UI. For the "Hayes" release in July 2007, the backend was completely reimplemented in C#, resulting in an API built as web services on top of the new Dream server and toolset.

The most recent major release, "Lyons" (release in March 2009), and the associated commercial version MindTouch 2009, introduces push notifications on content change, key/value properties on page, user and file objects, and the "JEM" (Javascript Events & Messages) framework, which provides event coordination and message passing. JEM integrates with the jQuery library and PageBus, a JavaScript event and message bus, to build rich internet applications.

Architecture

Deki API

Deki differs from other wikis by decoupling the frontend and the business logic. The web frontend interacts with the services via a REST API. This separation means that users can easily interact with the wiki in any language of their choice, using a web services architecture. The Deki API is commonly deployed, and fully supported on Linux using Mono, as well as Windows on the .NET framework. Each wiki page is automatically exposed as an XML Web Service, which can be operated on using standard HTTP verbs.

Dream Technology

The Deki API is built on a service layer called Dream (Distributed REST Application Manager), a REST framework for building web services on the .NET platform.

Web front-end

The most common interface to the Deki API is its PHP frontend. This frontend provides users with a full-featured wiki, built using a WYSIWYG editor.

Other front-ends

Other frontends to the Deki API available in the form of "connectors"; a Desktop Connector allows publishing from Microsoft Windows, while an Outlook Connector allows publishing of documents from Microsoft Outlook. A plugin for Microsoft Word is under development. An open-source iPhone interface named DekiMobile was released in November 2008.

Key features

Content authoring

All information in Deki pages is stored as XML, rather than wikitext. Pages are edited using a GUI editor, and can be manipulated as an XML web service. The frontend supports embedding rich media and has a built-in image gallery.

Deki supports internal and external authentications. Permissions can be applied to individual pages or page hierarchies.

DekiScript

MindTouch Deki includes a complete scripting language, called DekiScript. DekiScript, a light-weight, interpreted programming language, allows users to add dynamic content to wiki pages. It can be embedded directly into wiki pages or used in XML extensions.

Example

DekiScript is inserted using double curly braces. Hello World can be written easily:

{{ 'Hello World' }}

Dynamic content can be added using DekiScript functions, this example will display the name of the current user, and the text of the current day (e.g. Wednesday):

Hi {{ User.Name }}, it's {{ Date.DayName(Date.Now) }}.

Web 2.0 & mashups

A primary benefit of MindTouch Deki is the ability to use DekiScript to perform mashups. The open source edition of Deki ships with extensions allowing connection to over 100 web services, including systems such as Flickr, Google Maps, Windows Live and Yahoo.

LinuxInsider describes this feature as "let[ting] site admins rope in applications -- legacy systems, CRM and ERP apps, databases and Web 2.0 tools -- and hand them over to business users to create mashups, templates, dynamic reports and dashboards."

Multi-language

Multi-language support (named polyglot by MindTouch) allows hosting content in multiple languages on a single site. Language can be specified by user, site, section and pages, adapting the UI to the specified language. Search is available across all languages and results are prioritized by the user’s default language. MindTouch cite the 8.05 release of Deki as the first polyglot application on the web.

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

As banks recover from the global financial crisis and battle toward a healthy future, they must make a significant transformation to redefine their business models, restore client trust and understanding, and reform their risk management culture.

Corporate and Retail Banks, Credit Card companies and Financial Services face increasing competition, rising transaction costs, and growing customer demand for Internet-based services. Many of these organizations still rely on mainframes and proprietary applications for document and data processing and storage, making it difficult to implement effective content management solutions. Heavy investment in legacy applications, combined with significant competitive and regulatory pressures, impose integration, ROI, and scalability requirements that are difficult to address with proprietary systems.

Cosmo Commerce understands financial services business processes and the underlying technology currently in use in this industry. We have a range of solutions that enable firms to migrate paper-based or proprietary applications to more cost-effective, flexible open source environments. We're well versed on regulatory requirements and industry best practices, and we understand how effective content management gives financial services firms a significant competitive edge.

Cosmo Commerce understands financial services business processes and the underlying technology currently in use in this industry. We have a range of solutions that enable firms to migrate paper-based or proprietary applications to more cost-effective, flexible open source environments. We're well versed on regulatory requirements and industry best practices, and we understand how effective content management gives financial services firms a significant competitive edge.

Consumer products industral has a complex relationship between customers,shop owners and retailers. We are willing to build a easy to operate system to organize these factors. And most of the immportant is to leave a reliable and appreal immpresion on the customers.

Our Solution is to help the company manage customer relationship,monitor and control the cost,make decision of the marketing campain.

We would give you a solution including:

Company's Online Web Potral Including CMS (for consumer products)

E-Commerce Shopping/Distribute System(for consumer products)

Customer Relationship Management System(for consumer products)

Enterprise Resource Planning System(for consumer products)

Supply Chain Management (for consumer products)

Human Resource Management (for consumer products)

Online Affiliate Programe

Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

According to your unique and customized requirement, we will divide the solution into several parts. And you can also choose one or more choices in our recommended products.

Cosmo Commerce offers a range of solutions for online courses and resource materials that drastically improve access to education while reducing instruction and administration costs.

Online learning brings educational opportunities to audiences who, for cost or location reasons, couldn't previously participate. But automating courses, instruction, and administration can be a difficult and costly process. Many institutions don't have the expertise or the resources for complex, proprietary eLearning applications, and government-supported institutions often don't have the budget.

Cosmos Commerce understands how to define and develop content management solutions for eLearning, administration, and records management. We've built education portals for creating, formatting, and delivering personalized, accurate information, and collaborative environments for instruction, teamwork, and testing. We can cost-effectively integrate legacy systems, and help educational institutions migrate many paper-based solutions to the Internet.

We would give you a solution including:

Online Web Potral Including CMS (for Education)

Customer Relationship Management System(for Education)

Human Resource Management (for Education)

Project Management

Collaboration System (WIKIs and BLOGs for Education ogranization)

According to your unique and customized requirement, we will divide the solution into several parts. And you can also choose one or more choices in our recommended products.

Electronics industral has a complex relationship between customers,distributors and retailers. We are willing to build a easy to operate system to organize these factors. And most of the immportant is to leave a reliable and appreal immpresion on the customers.

Our Solution is to help the company manage customer relationship,monitor and control the cost,make decision of the marketing campain.

We will help you to use the least effort to make the maxium the profit. That means to meet your customers' demanding and make them happy.

We would give you a solution including:

Company's Online Web Potral Including CMS (for Electronics)

E-Commerce Shopping/Distribute System(for Electronics)

Customer Relationship Management System(for Electronics)

Enterprise Resource Planning System(for Electronics)

Supply Chain Management (for Electronics)

Human Resource Management (for Electronics)

Online Affiliate Programe

Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

According to your unique and customized requirement, we will divide the solution into several parts. And you can also choose one or more choices in our recommended products.

Industrial products industral has a complex relationship between every side. We are willing to build a easy to operate system to organize these factors. And most of the immportant is to leave a reliable and appreal immpresion on the clients.

Our Solution is to help the company manage customer relationship,monitor and control the cost,make decision of the marketing campain.

We would give you a solution including:

Company's Online Web Potral Including CMS (for Industrial products)

Customer Relationship Management System(for Industrial products)

Enterprise Resource Planning System(for Industrial products)

Supply Chain Management (for Industrial products)

Human Resource Management (for Industrial products)

Project Management (for Industrial products)

Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

According to your unique and customized requirement, we will divide the solution into several parts. And you can also choose one or more choices in our recommended products.

Healthcare companies depend heavily on the ability to reduce time-to-market their patented products to maximise revenues in addition to ensuring easy and speedy access to information to improve productivity, ensure compliance and reduce costs. Care givers, patients, suppliers, employees and partners require timely access to a wide variety of information in a simple, structured and pre-determined format to ensure the success across product development, regulatory compliance, sales and support. The need of the hour is a committed partner who understands their issues and provides cost-effective, secure, scalable enterprise solutions that integrate seamlessly with legacy applications for distributing, storing and archiving information.

Retail industral is different from other industrial for its rapid goods update.Retail has a complex relationship between customers,shop owners and retailers. We are willing to build a easy to operate system to organize these factors. And most of the immportant is to leave a reliable and appreal immpresion on the customers.

Our Solution is to help the company manage customer relationship,monitor and control the cost,make decision of the marketing campain.

We would give you a solution including:

Company's Online Web Potral Including CMS (for retail industral)

E-Commerce Shopping/Distribute System(for retail industral)

Customer Relationship Management System(for retail industral)

Enterprise Resource Planning System(for retail industral)

Supply Chain Management (for retail industral)

Online Affiliate Programe

Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

According to your unique and customized requirement, we will divide the solution into several parts. And you can also choose one or more choices in our recommended products.

Wholesale and distribution industrial take more care about the supply chain management and its warehouse's cost. If the cost of the warehouse and transportation lower than the competitor you can earn more profit. This is why E-Bussiness plays a much more immportant role in this industrial.

Our Solution is to help the company manage supply chain,monitor and control the cost,business desicaion support.

Success in the high tech industry depends on an organization's ability to effectively improve productivity, efficiently develop products and services, ensure compliance, and reduce costs. Access to, and timely distribution of, information is critical to the success of product development, support, and sales. Employees, partners, and customers require access to a wide variety of information in a straightforward, consistent format.

Cosmo Commerce offers a variety of solutions aimed at improving communication both internally and externally. We feature portals that can drastically simplify the creation, storage, and distribution of multi-format documents - ensuring customers, suppliers, and users have easy, personalized access to information. For automating and streamlining processes, we offer document management solutions that combine multiple data sources, create unified processes, and properly tag and store critical information. And all of this is accomplished through flexible, cost-effective open source platforms.

Business process management (BPM) is a field of managementfocused on aligning organizations with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility and integration with technology. Business process management attempts to continuously improve processes. It could therefore be described as a "process optimization process".

The activities which constitute business process management can be grouped into five categories: design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization.

BPM System (BPMS) is sometimes seen as "the whole of BPM." Some see that information moves between enterprise software packages and immediately think of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Others believe that "modeling is the only way to create the ‘perfect’ process," so they think of modeling as BPM.

Both of these concepts go into the definition of Business Process Management. For instance, the size and complexity of daily tasks often requires the use of technology to model efficiently. Some people view BPM as "the bridge between Information Technology (IT) and Business."

After our customized you can deploy it into your general business process.

Dokuwiki is a standards compliant, simple to useWiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

Our system has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.

Authentication is an important part of user management and Joomla support multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows users to use their existing account information to streamline the registration process.

Media Manager

The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders and you can configure the MIME type settings to handle any type of file. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.

Language Manager

There is international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your Web site in one language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are possible.

Banner Management

It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more.

Contact Management

The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.

Polls

If you want to find out more about your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options.

Search

Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.

Web Link Management

Providing link resources for site users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every click.

Content Management

Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.

Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.

Syndication and Newsfeed Management

With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.

Menu Manager

The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of your content structure. Put one menu in multiple places and in any style you want; use rollovers, dropdown, flyouts and just about any other navigation system you can think of. Also automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help navigate your site users.

Template Management

Templates in Joomla are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The level of visual control goes a step further with powerful template overrides, allowing you to customize each part of your pages.

Integrated Help System

Joomla has a built-in help section to assist users with finding what they need. A glossary explains the terms in plain English, a version checker makes sure you're using the latest version, a system information tool helps you troubleshoot, and, if all else fails, links to a wealth of online resources for additional help and support.

If your system administrator needs to troubleshoot an issue, debugging mode and error reporting are invaluable.

The FTP Layer allows file operations (like installing Extensions) without having to make all the folders and files writable, making your site administrator's life easier and increasing the security of your site.

Administators quickly and efficiently communicate with users one-on-one through private messaging or all site users via the mass mailing system.

Web Services

With Web services, you can use Remote Procedure Calls (via HTTP and XML). You can also integrate XML-RPC services with the Blogger and Joomla APIs.

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License and proprietary licenses. It is primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets.

Drupal is a free and open-source content management framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is widely used as a back-end system for websites ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

MindTouch (formerly known as DekiWiki) is a libre enterprise web-based wiki software and mashup platform. With C# back-end cleanly separated, this software make use of complimentary front-ends connectors to interface with users and access local data, applications and remote services like Google Maps or Flickr.

Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model-view-controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.

Magento is an open source ecommerce web application which has been widely adopted by online retailers. Magento was built using the Zend Framework and uses the Entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data.

Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX), which allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software, using its own desktop environment. We provide Ubuntu solution for website server deployment.

OrangeHRM is the first Open Source HRIS. Targeting small and medium Enterprises, OrangeHRM provides a precise and convenient HRM System. The functionality includes employee information management, employee absence management, recruitment management, employee performance evaluation and many other HR management tools.

Openbravo ERP is a web-based ERP business solution. The model for the program was originally based on the Compiere ERP program that is also open source, released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

OpenERP (previously known as TinyERP) is an open source integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software manufactured by OpenERP s.a. OpenERP is an open source alternative to SAP ERP and Microsoft Dynamics.

Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components needed to create an online social environment. It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking, groups and a number of other features.

We focus on the open source projects to solve clients' problems.
These open source projects are world class systems, they all proved by hundreds of geeks and open source contributors.
Using these systems you can benefit from:
Standard Framework/Architecture
Marketplace Modules/Extensions
Quick Updates/Patch
No Commercial License Limitation
Rapid Prototype to Reduce Project Risk

Drupal (pronunciation: /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to CMSs. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS-feeds, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can be used as a brochureware website, a single- or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community website providing for user-generated content.

Over 7000 (as of November 2010) free community-contributed addons, known as contrib modules, are available to alter and extend Drupal's core capabilities and add new features or customize Drupal's behavior and appearance. Because of this plug-in extensibility and modular design, Drupal is sometimes described as a content management framework. Drupal is also described as a web application framework, as it meets the generally accepted feature requirements for such frameworks.

Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP 4.4.0+ (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx) and a database (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) to store content and settings. Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 or higher.

History

Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. Drupal is an English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a water droplet”). The name was taken from the now-defunct Drop.org website, whose code slowly evolved into Drupal. Buytaert wanted to call the site “dorp” (Dutch for “village”) for its community aspects, but mistyped it when checking the domain name and thought the error sounded better.

A community now helps develop Drupal, and Drupal's popularity is growing rapidly. From May 2007 to April 2008, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 1.4 million times, an increase of approximately 125% from the previous year.

As of July 2010, hundreds of well-known organizations use Drupal, including companies, governments, non-profits, schools, and individuals. An estimated 7.2 million sites used Drupal as of July 2010. Drupal also won several Packt Open Source CMS Awards and three times (in a row) won the Webware 100.

Drupal 6.19, released in August 2010, is the latest release.

There is no date announced yet for the final release of Drupal 7. Test releases include:

On March 5, 2009, Buytaert announced a code freeze for Drupal 7 for September 1, 2009.

On October 7, 2010, beta 1 was released.

On October 23, 2010, beta 2 was released.

On November 14, 2010, beta 3 was released.

On December 1, 2010, release candidate 1 was released.

Drupal core

Drupal core is the stock element of Drupal. In its default configuration, a Drupal website's content can be contributed by either registered or anonymous users (at the discretion of the administrator) and is made accessible to web visitors by a variety of selectable criteria. Drupal core also includes a hierarchical taxonomy system, which allows content to be categorized or tagged with key words for easier access.

Drupal maintains a detailed changelog of core feature updates by version

Core modules

Drupal core includes optional modules which can be enabled by the administrator to extend the functionality of the core website. The core Drupal distribution provides a number of features, including:

Access statistics and logging

Advanced search

Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls

Caching and feature throttling for improved performance

Descriptive URLs

Multiple-level menu system

Multiple-site support

Multiple-user content creation and editing

OpenID support

RSS Feed and Feed Aggregator

Security/new release update notification

User profiles

Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email)

Workflow tools (Triggers and Actions)

Core themes

Drupal core includes core themes, which customize the "look and feel" of Drupal sites.

By February 2008, Drupal had been made available in 44 languages and English (the default). Support is included for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.

Auto-update notification

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Welcome from novice to geeks to join the team, you will find the common idea here. We all try to use open source solutions to start a new IT consulting revolution.
Open Source is good for "Freedom","No Limitation","Share Idea". With such idea enterprise can benefit a lot from SMB/SME. We can see the future of the IT is open source system. Because these system are most flexible and driven by users.